Thursday, October 18, 2018

Why Do We Care?

I'm not being flippant, I'm just a bit perplexed.  It seems that this Saudi guy walks in to the Saudi consulate in Turkey and disappears.  It's all over the news.  And, evidently, the White House is interested, and I'm trying to figure out why?

Sure, it's an interesting story, and there is lots of speculation, but the guy was not an American citizen, he wasn't in the US, and both Saudi and Turkey are ostensible US allies. 

I simply can't see any reason for official US government interest in this story, but I'm willing to be convinced.  Yeah, the speculation and rumor is that this guy was killed in the consulate, hacked into pieces, and disappeared forever.  It's a gruesome story, but it's half a world away, and doesn't affect a US citizen.  Why are we interested?

2 comments:

Mike Silvius said...

To understand the many layers in this story you need to dig deeper than the hogwash being promoted in the MSM. First question you need to ask who was this reporter and why do the saudis want him gone? And you soon learn that he is not the nice guy being presented in the media. He was a staunch promoter of the Islamic brotherhood (Iranian faction) and expressly opposed the recent more liberal moves the saudis has made. Turks and Saudis are different brand of muslims. Turks are allied with Iran and are seeking to drive a wedge between the Saudis and the US. The Saudis wanted to take this clown out. And the turks rigged it all claiming he needed approval from his country of origin to get married in Turkey so he would walk in to the Saudi embassy. So they would nab him and create an embarrassing situation for the US in order to get the US to part ways with the Saudis and stop the arms sales to Iran's foe in the proxy war taking place between the Iranians and the Saudis in Yemen. Bottom line is no one of the characters in the scheme is a nice guy.

Gaffer said...

The decedent was a contributing writer to the Washington Post, a national cage liner that believes it is important enough to control the government, In this case they have achieved their goal.